Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson in the same Netflix film, inspired by JM Coetzee

Netflix always has enough and various releases which include movies, series, documentaries, bioseries and much more, among that range of releases, there is ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, a film with Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson, accompanying star Mark Rylancein a co-production between the United States and Italy.

‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ or ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ as is the title in English, shows international contemporary cinema, through its history inspired by one of South African author JM Coetzee’s bookswho also worked as a screenwriter in this Netflix streaming production, and of which Ciro Guerra is the director.

The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and, after playing in select theaters in a few countries, is now available thanks to the wonders of streaming. It has attracted attention not only for the story it presents and its literary background, but also because it brings together majestic international film stars such as Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan and Greta Scacchi.

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Who’s Who in ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’

The main star obviously is Marco Rylance who plays the character of the Magistrate, an elderly man who has grown his empire, but whose name we never hear. Through his work and career he managed to maintain order, until the arrival of the mysterious character of Colonel Joll, played by the actor Johnny Deppwho now stays away from all the controversy following her divorce.

Colonel Joll has orders from the central power and this will be reason enough for problems to break out between the members and the locals, opening the arrival of Officer Mandel, a character played by Robert Pattinson, a subordinate of Colonel Joll and who commands the strong. .

Johnny Depp is a famous actor in the film industry. He has played a wide variety of characters throughout his career, from the flamboyant Captain Jack Sparrow in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga, to the eccentric Willy Wonka in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, to the sinister Sweeney Todd. The Evil Barber of Fleet Street.”

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From Robert PattinsonBefore becoming a global star thanks to ‘Twilight’, Pattinson appeared in films such as ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ and ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’. Since then, she has continued to work on interesting and varied projects.

He has worked with acclaimed directors such as David Cronenberg on films such as ‘Cosmopolis’ and ‘Maps to the Stars’, and has been part of the cast of other notable films such as ‘The Lighthouse’ and ‘Tenet’. In 2022 he premiered his new take on Batman in the movie ‘The Batman’.

‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ has a political air of the 60s and 70s, in that decade in which films oriented their plots to express a critical look at imperialism. This film has all the cinematic qualities of this period, but explicitly transports us to adventure cinema.

Although it is a great film, its greatest attraction is that Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson participate in this great work, in a project in which they have never been seen before, not even together, exposing complex issues around the world, relating the human sense with politics.